Kanimozhi

NEW DELHI: Amid speculation that she will succeed A Raja as Telecom Minister, DMK MP Kanimozhi on Monday said a decision on the issue will be taken by party president M Karunanidhi , even as she made it clear that the alliance with Congress is "as strong as ever". Another DMK MP and former Union Minister T R Baalu, who is also said to be in the race to succeed Raja, also spoke in the same vain and said as of now the plum Telecom portfolio will...

CHENNAI: India should implement a moratorium on death penalty, said DMK leader and Rajya Sabha member Kanimozhi on Thursday. Reacting to the hanging of 1993 Mumbai blast accused Yakub Memon on Thursday, Kanimozhi said she would move a private member resolution and private member's bill in the Rajya Sabha to abolish death penalty. "Over 150 countries in the world have abolished death penalty. The UN General Assembly has...

CHENNAI: DMK Chief M Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi is unlikely to join the government at the Centre, apparently miffed at not not getting a Cabinet rank or at least a Minister of State with independent charge. 'We do not think that she will be joining the ministry' sources close to her told PTI. The poetess-daughter of the DMK chief was keen on getting a Cabinet berth but the party is understood to have decided that M K Azhagiri, A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran would be its nominees in the...

NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister and DMK chief M Karunanidhi has hinted that his daughter Kanimozhi is expected to become minister in the Union government. The veteran Tamil Nadu leader, who was in the Natinoal Capital to play mediator between the Left and the Congress over UPA's presidential candidate, hinted as much while returning to Chennai on Friday. With this trip, the patriarch seems to have set the stage for his family's direct entry into national politics.

Endorsing MK Stalin as the successor for leadership of the DMK, his half-sister and women's wing president Kanimozhi Karunanidhi has said that there is no resistance in the party to his elevation. In a rare newspaper interview, she takes on the Tamil Nadu government and former chief minister J Jayalalithaa, claiming administration has come to a standstill in Tamil Nadu. Here are edited excerpts from an interview with V Prem Shanker . Where is the...

CHENNAI: Taking exception to JD (U) leader Sharad Yadav's sexist remarks about South Indian women in the Rajya Sabha last week, DMK Treasurer M K Stalin today said it was 'shameful' when politicians make 'derogatory' comments. "It is a politician's duty to maintain decorum when speaking in Parliament. It is shameful when they indulge in derogatory remarks about women," he tweeted without naming the JD (U) leader. Stalin's tweet comes days after Yadav...

NEW DELHI: The DMK's woes in the runup to the assembly polls in Tamil Nadu are set to be compounded with the imminent interrogation of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi for her alleged links to DB Realty, the real estate firm promoted by Shahid Usman Balwa. Along with her mother Rajathi Ammal, Kanimozhi owns an 80% stake in Kalaignar TV. The broadcaster company, promoted by Tamil Nadu's first family, was the recipient of a Rs 214-crore loan from DB Realty, which...

NEW DELHI: Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, who was quizzed on Friday by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the 2G-spectrum allocation scam, differentiates herself from other young dynasty children found in abundance in Parliament through her literary and cultural endeavours. The 43-year-old daughter of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party chief M Karunanidhi has published four poetry books in Tamil , following in her father's footsteps . ...

NEW DELHI: Senior DMK leader M K Stalin today met his sister Kanimozhi, arrested in the 2G spectrum case , at a trial court here and spent nearly 40 minutes with her. Stalin, accompanied by DMK parliamentary party leader T R Baalu and other senior leaders came to the Patiala House court complex at 10 am and waited for half-an-hour for Kanimozhi to come to the court room. Stalin chatted with Kanimozhi and former Telecom Minister A Raja...

NEW DELHI: A day after the Supreme Court turned down the bail plea of DMK leader and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi , party chief M Karunanidhi again flew down to the Capital to meet his daughter in Tihar Jail. This is the former Tamil Nadu chief minister's second visit to Delhi in a month. Accompanied by Kanimozhi's mother Rajathi Ammal and her brother MK Alagiri , the 88-year-old DMK chief went to Tihar Jail in late afternoon. An emotional Karunanidhi spent...

CHENNAI: DMK Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi's assets have registered over three-fold increase in the last six years to Rs 26.67 crore from Rs 8.56 crore. Kanimozhi, daughter of DMK supremo M Karunanidhi in her affidavit, filed along with her nomination for the Rajya Sabha seat today, has declared that she owns movable and immovables worth Rs 26.67 crore. Her total declared assets include Rs 16.67 crore moveable property and Rs 10 crore worth immoveable property. The sitting...

NEW DELHI: AIADMK members from AIADMK today walked out of Rajya Sabha after seeking to interrupt DMK's Kanimozhi who expressed concern over the exploration of Coal Bed Methane (CBM) in Cauvery region. Raising the CBM exploration issue during Zero Hour, Kanimozhi said it was extremely dangerous and posed a huge threat to agriculture and environment. She asked the government to stop further exploration and announce a moratorium on CBM exploration. She said that farmers, who...

NEW DELHI: A demand for setting up a national panel to champion the cause of country's fishermen and provide them a platform to raise their concerns, was made in Rajya Sabha by a DMK member today. Observing that almost 70 per cent of fishermen were in the BPL category, Kanimozhi (DMK) demanded the setting up of a 'National Commission of Fishermen Welfare' to create a platform where 1.5 crore fishermen could voice their concerns. Highlighting the importance...

NEW DELHI: A DMK member of Rajya Sabha today condemned the hurling of crude bombs at the office of a Tamil news channel in Chennai, ruing that it had happened in a state which vouched for freedom of expression. Raising the issue during Zero Hour in the Upper House, Kanimozhi said mediapersons and their families were being threatened and referred to a number of such incidents in the recent past. AIADMK MPs rose to protest the DMK member's remarks following...

NEW DELHI: Former Telecom Minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and 17 others, facing trial in a 2G scam-related money laundering case, will have to answer a questionnaire containing 400 queries during recording of their statements in the matter before a special court. The court today supplied the questionnaire to the counsel of the accused, observing that it would facilitate recording of statements with "ease and felicity" as the records of the case...

NEW DELHI: With AAP sweeping to a landslide win and BJP biting the dust in the Delhi elections, DMK Parliamentary Party Leader Kanimozhi today said that the results showed that the country still holds secularism as vital. "I think, in a way it is an unexpected result, I mean, this kind of margin, this kind of victory, they have just swept the polls and we have to think about it. "One major thing is that the country still...

CHENNAI: DMK president M Karunanidhi today said he did not call on Congress President Sonia Gandhi during his visit to Delhi as it was 'not appropriate' to meet her when his daughter Kanimozhi, arrested in connection with the 2G scam, was in prison . "There was an opportunity. There was time to meet Sonia Gandhi (but) since my daughter Kanimozhi is in jail, it was not appropriate for me to meet Gandhi and I avoided meeting her," he told reporters...

CHENNAI: DMK MP and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi, who was questioned by CBI on the 2G spectrum allocation scam, today said full cooperation was being extended to the agency. "We are answering everything and whatever is required. We are cooperating with CBI, unlike many political leaders who don't," Kanimozhi, who was questioned along with Karunanidhi's wife Dayalu at the DMK headquarters here, told reporters. This showed their intention to...

CHENNAI: DMK president M Karunanidhi and his son and party Treasurer M K Stalin were among those who greeted party MP Kanimozhi on her 47th birthday today. Kanimozhi's CIT Colony residence here was decked up for the occasion, even as her supporters had organised welfare activities on the occasion. Besides her father Karunanidhi and half-brother Stalin, other notable DMK leaders who personally greeted Kanimozhi, an accused in the 2G Spectrum allocation...

NEW DELHI: A private member's bill seeking total ban on use and import of white asbestos in the country was among a dozen such legislations introduced in the Rajya Sabha today. Vijay Jawaharlal Darda (Congress), who moved the White Asbestos (Ban on Use and Import) Bill , 2014, sought use of safer and cheaper alternative to white asbestos. Darda moved two more bills including the Supreme Court (Establishment of a Permanent Bench at Nagpur) Bill, 2014 for a bench...